retrograde amnesia

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   loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma

   Broaderamnesia

Questions about retrograde amnesia

What does retrograde amnesia mean?

retrograde amnesia means "loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma".

Is retrograde amnesia a common word?

retrograde amnesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.